Social theory

Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives.

This book analyses the Islamic State's (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.

The aim of this book is to exemplify the ways in which social work and research develop in 'advanced' welfare states - countries where public spending is relatively high as a proportion of GNP.

Roger Holme's work in social and industrial psychology is widely respected.

Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

This book explores the close interconnection that exists between sociological and philosophical scholarship in relation to peace studies.

In today's world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level.

This book is an immersive ethnographic account of how fighters at a Polish-owned Muay Thai/kickboxing gym in East London seek to reject prior identity markers in favour of constructing one another as the same, as fighters, a category supposedly free from the negative assumptions and limitations associated with prior ascriptions such as race, class, gender and sexuality.

The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society.

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society.

Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation.

First published in 1978, Studying Society is a stimulating introductory text in sociology and social studies.

Utopias - whether philosophical, literary, or actual experiments - are attempts to solve all social problems.

Available in paperback for the first time, Welfare Policy from Below is the most comprehensive study available of social exclusion in contemporary Europe.

The past century of labor was definitively captured by theories like Fordism and Taylorism, or scientific managment, but how do we make sense of global production today?

In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise.

This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice.

The first systematic account of how structures of justice led to the emergence of representative institutions and state-formation in Western Europe.

In the face of great challenges, utopian thinking is currently in vogue.

Gerard Delanty offers a critical interpretation of the European heritage today in light of recent developments in the human and social sciences, and in view of a mood of crisis in Europe that compels us to re-think the European past.

Ignorance is typically thought of as the absence or opposite of knowledge.

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP).

Affectivity and the Social Bond offers a fresh and original perspective on the relationship between affectivity and transcendence in nineteenth and twentieth century French social theory.

The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends-and with varying degrees of success.

This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory.

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world - and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

This book addresses a question of importance for both theory and practice: Why are joint venture agreements preferred over other types of agreements such as concession agreements, service contracts, and production sharing agreements in the Qatari gas industry?

New Perspectives of the Philosophy of Social Science provides a comprehensive history, explanation and critique of empiricism and positivism within the natural and social sciences, as well as an overview of the interpretivist/hermeneutic tradition in social science.

Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject.

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them.

The collapse of Marxism in much of the Third World as well as Europe was so sudden and spectacular that it is hard to believe that in the space of seven years The Journal of Communist Studies could bring out special issues both on the creation of 'Military Marxist Regimes in Africa', and on their demise and the wider collapse of Marxist governments on the continent.

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body.

The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies.

Die Utopie der Gemeinschaft beruht auf authentischer Nahe und sozialer Geborgenheit.

Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies.

In this dynamic book, Charles Lemert elaborates a vigorous, distinctive, and creative American tradition in social thought.

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; and the ethical dilemmas for the scholar in a democratic space.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

In The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

This insightful book examines the differences in the perception of social status and how they impact youth mental health and well-being.

Can capitalism and citizenship co-exist?

Fararo studies general theoretical sociology as a time-extended tradition with three phases: classical, postclassical, and recent.

This book engages with, and contests, the 'new sociology of nature'.

In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions?